Nutrition
Why the Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning the Evidence Wars
One Spanish randomised trial cut heart attacks and strokes by roughly 30 percent using olive oil and nuts. Here is why that result has held up so well since.
Jun 18, 2024
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Nutrition
The Carnivore Diet's Evidence Problem, Explained Plainly
All meat, no plants, and a wave of enthusiastic testimonials online. The actual research base behind the claims is nine small studies with no control group at all.
Apr 5, 2026
Nutrition
The Low FODMAP Diet Is a Diagnostic Tool, Not a Way of Eating
It has strong evidence behind it for irritable bowel syndrome, and it is routinely misused. The elimination phase is meant to last weeks, and the part people skip is the part that matters.
Aug 7, 2026
Nutrition
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Wrong, Item by Item
Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.
Jun 3, 2026
Nutrition
Mediterranean Diet Keeps Winning: What Research Says
The Mediterranean diet isn't trendy, it's proven. New 2025 research shows it cuts diabetes risk by a third when combined with lifestyle changes.
Feb 10, 2025
Nutrition
Hydration Facts: How Much Water You Actually Need, and Where 'Eight Glasses' Came From
The eight-glasses rule traces to an unreferenced 1945 guess. Here is what evidence-based bodies recommend instead.
Apr 8, 2025
Nutrition
A Protein Bar Is Ultra-Processed. New Trial Data Says That May Not Be the Point
Protein-enriched processed foods produced higher satiety hormones and lower calorie intake than normal-protein versions of the same products. It complicates a classification a lot of advice now rests on.
Aug 17, 2026
Nutrition
Low-Carb vs Low-Fat: What Decades of Trials Converged On
The biggest head-to-head diet trial ever run found near-identical weight loss. The real variable turned out to be the person, not the macro.
Nov 18, 2024
Nutrition
Nizam al-Tayyibat: What the Diet Actually Tells You to Eat
Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.
May 13, 2026
Nutrition
What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Right, Taken Seriously
Millions of people did not follow this system because they are foolish. Three things about it genuinely work, and understanding them explains the reach better than mockery does.
May 29, 2026
Nutrition
A Mouse Study Says Sweeteners Left Marks Two Generations On, and It Is Being Read Far Too Confidently
47 mice drank water, sucralose or stevia. Their children and grandchildren, who drank only water, showed some of the same changes to gut bacteria and gene activity. That is genuinely interesting and it is not a finding about people.
Sep 1, 2026
Nutrition
Added Sugar Versus Intrinsic Sugar: What the Guidance Actually Says
WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.
Sep 10, 2024
Nutrition
Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows
Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.
Sep 25, 2025
